For those of you unfamiliar with the Shure SM58, you will certainly have seen several, if not hundreds in your lifetime. They are used by almost every stage crew, band and university globablly. Do a search for ‘Shure SM58′ in Google and you’ll be presented with 589,000 results. Not bad for a single microphone!

I have to say we were not overly excited when we received the new MXL AC-404 Boundary Mic at our offices. USB boundary mics have been increasing in popularity over the past few years with the rise of home-working and teleconferencing. Usually, they are tinny affairs making the user sound like they are sat in [...]